Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shrewd, good-humored James Prioleau Richards, special ambassador and onetime (1933-56) South Carolina Congressman, charged by the President with explaining the Eisenhower Doctrine to the Mideast governments, got a sudden change in signals last week. While Richards was in Greece, the word came through from the White House: Come Home...
...Justice Department morale. He could and did prove himself a lawyer first and a politician second. He could and did streamline the department machinery. Without these achievements he could not have written his record. But the achievements in method were not enough. The job of Attorney General demands a special sort of courage. It requires a man willing to walk a lonely road in applying the laws in such vital fields as security, antitrust and civil rights, the laws that reach dramatically into the very blood and muscle of the nation...
Haled before a special congressional committee chaired by Maryland's veteran Democratic Senator Millard Tydings, Senator McCarthy replied with thousands of words of obfuscation and counterattack, identified not a single Communist Party member in the Government. The Tydings committee called his charges "a fraud and a hoax." The Truman Administration was part of the history of "20 years of treason," McCarthy insisted-as he kept on making headlines...
...relaxed the daytime curfew, and set out to try about 100 "Communists and fellow travelers" under martial law for seeking his overthrow. The U.S. Sixth Fleet wheeled round off Beirut and sailed away for the western Mediterranean, having made its point and enjoyed its shore leave. Eisenhower's Special Ambassador to the Middle East, ex-Congressman James P. Richards, after a last visit to Israel headed for home. Left glumly isolated and defeated in the first round, the Egyptian and Syrian press and radio suddenly piped down on their inflammatory propaganda against Jordan...
...from their discussion groups. More important, however, tutors should extend invitations to their more advanced pupils to participate in a program of individual instruction rather than regular tutorial. Under such a plan, the student would consult periodically with his tutor about a long, term paper on a topic of special interest to the student. Under his tutor's guidance, he would be able to learn some of the research techniques used in thesis-writing while developing a specialized interest...